Southeast Asia looks different to a farang than it does to a native. Here are seven stories picturing some of the things that one farang saw. A retired American takes a young Thai wife and gets more than he bargained for. A young Thai woman lets her jealousy destroy her chance for a good future. A Thai girl who is sweet but has only one talent finds that those two qualities are enough.

Hard-luck private eye Bubba Mabry needs money at Christmastime, so he takes an onerous job: keeping an eye on the Santas at a local mall. When one of the Santas turns up murder, it's up to Bubba and his wife, newspaper reporter Felicia Quattlebaum, to find out who's been naughty.
A hilarious look at the Christmas season, as only Bubba can bring it!

Danny Brooks is an English teacher and has a class of teenagers from all over the world. He wants them to write a book while they are studying in England. Write a book - in four weeks? Is Danny Brooks mad? That is a possibility. Will the students write a book? Will they get it published? Read Write First Time and find out.

Craig Lock is an extensive world traveller and failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life's savings on airfares. He is still 'sliding down the razor blade of life', stuck on a deserted (other than a few brilliant rugby players) island at the bottom of the world near Antarctica, where he is 'trying to throw a double six' to get off and go out into the real world.

My name is Angie. I am a female Golden Retriever who many of you already know as The Golden Retriever Philosopher Dog. Each chapter marries one classy photo to one of my insightful thoughts. Most of us understand the synergy of well-written lyrics with the right music. This book is the photographic analog of words and music - namely, words and pictures.
You just gotta love ingenious dogs.

A one-act romantic comedy play.
An awkward shut-in (Andrew) is sent to a mall to get medicine and ends up meeting an off-putting volunteer gift wrapper (Anita). Their personalities clash, but Andrew takes a liking to Anita and returns to the mall again and again and again. As December goes on, the two develop an odd relationship, but a happy ending seems out of reach... until Christmas Eve.

A twisted tale of several holidays from the National Best-Selling author!
Want to know the secret of how Santa Claus gets down all those chimneys? So does someone else, and a confrontation on a frozen rooftop exposes many secrets.

Christmas comes early for private investigator Dee and her partner, the grumpy but drop-dead-gorgeous elf Dizzy G, when Santa's elves hire Diz and Dee to find Santa's missing stand in. Santa's taken a sabbatical, and only one elf at the North Pole can fill the big man’s shoes. An elf who’d rather compete in professional food-eating contests than spend one more holiday in Santa’s sleigh.

Meet a kid so bad, he gets a lump of coal every Christmas...and likes it! Neighborhood bully Buzz Scanlan takes pride in his annual lump, but when the coal stops coming, the ten-year-old holy terror confronts the victims of his mischief, digging for dirt on the one nice thing he must have done. The shocking secret behind his lumps of coal might just change his life forever.

When the headstrong eleven year old Tania gets an idea, NOTHING can divert her from her goal. And nothing gets her going more than the discovery of some injustice in the world. Nor does the 'help' she gets from her somewhat cynical English tutor serve to temper the mayhem. Righting wrongs with Tania comes with considerable collateral damage.

According to Officer Nick Mantino, Nutball Season runs from Halloween to Christmas. This year, he has more than his usual number of nutballs. There’s the geezer who thinks he’s been cast in Miracle on 34th Street. There’s Mrs. Billings, who has told everyone she’ll shoot Santa if he lands on her roof. Now Nick wonders if he's becoming a nutball too.

Leo LeSander was an odd fellow, but things got a little stranger that autumn when he decided he was a bonafide Moose Whisperer, all because one came out of the blue one day to chat with him a bit! Follow Leo's journey from a path of self-imposed divine destiny to a better one of simply accepting those strange little anomalies which happen to cross your path as icing on the cake of your life.

In this collection of hilarious short stories, you'll see what thieves, killers and psychos get up to come the holidays...and it's not baking cookies. Originally published in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines, these nine tales from short story master Steve Hockensmith (Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Holmes on the Range) are sure to have you ho-ho-hoing from the first page to the last.